Lyng captain james (2 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Sydney, Cornstalk, 1925., 1925
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, AustralienGrant's Bookshop
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In den WarenkorbSm. 8vo; 248pp frontispiece, b/w. plates, map , original pale brown cloth, previous owner's name. a very good or better copy. . First edition.
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Verlag: Cornstalk Publishing Comapny, Sydney, 1925
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, AustralienMichael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Sydney, Cornstalk Publishing Comapny, 1925. Octavo, 248 pages with a map plus 14 pages of plates (totalling 19 illustrations from photographs). Cloth a little marked, bumped and rubbed; two corners very slightly worn with trifling loss; flyleaves discoloured; title page lightly offse…t; edges and initial leaves a little foxed; occasional light foxing; rear hinge slightly torn; overall, in very good condition. Life in New Guinea in the aftermath of the 1914 removal of the Germans by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, and some of the issues facing Australian colonisation in NG (Australia received a mandate from the League of Nations to govern PNG in 1921). 'In addition, [Lyng] devoted his attention to ethnology and anthropology [and] became greatly interested in the manners and customs of the native races' (from the 9-page preface by Seaforth Mackenzie).
